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L3Harris Technologies has won a potential $886 million contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command to deliver surveillance and reconnaissance support to the Army, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a five-year base and five one-year follow-on options. Work includes providing datalink architecture, network design enhancements for aerial and […]

Carlos Del Toro, the secretary of the Navy, told Defense News that the service is putting together an innovation center and advisory board at the Naval Postgraduate School as a means to advance technological capabilities in collaboration with the private sector. He noted artificial intelligence and quantum computing as priorities for research and development. According […]

The U.S. Air Force has selected SimX to conduct a feasibility study to explore how the use of virtual reality medical simulation training can be extended to meet the training needs of the Air Force Special Operations Command. Under a $225,000 award, SimX and AFSOC will work together to enable using VR MST in urban […]

The Naval Aviation Systems Consortium has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $98.5 million other transaction authority contract to support the Joint Economical Sled Track Rockets program. Under the OTA deal, Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop and manufacture new motors and sleds for the JESTR program. The components form part of test tracks that the Department of Defense […]

The U.S. Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office has received the first of four prototype Typhon weapon systems from Lockheed Martin. The mid-range capability, which includes launchers, missiles and a battery operations center, can fire Standard Missile-6 or Tomahawk missiles. Typhon is part of the Army’s top priority modernization effort that aims to develop […]

The Department of Defense, through the Defense Innovation Unit, has awarded Kodiak Robotics a two-year, $49.9 million contract for ground vehicle automation support. Kodiak Robotics will help the U.S. Army automate ground vehicles that are being developed under the service’s Robotic Combat Vehicle program. Kodiak will use its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and […]

The U.S. Army awarded Leonardo DRS a $39 million, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract in August to start low-rate initial production of a third-generation forward-looking infrared long-range sensor equipped with a dewar cooler bench. The DCB is intended to support situational awareness across various battlefield conditions by converting IR radiation to video images. The new technology will […]